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Thanks Jim! For questions relating to the history of the LEGO company and the Christiansen family, Jim Hughes is really the subject matter expert. He has done a lot of research about both, whereas my area of research is focused more on the LEGO sets (...) (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: From the TCLTC Proving Grounds....
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(...) Hey I really like that. any chance you will be sharing the details (eg code?) on how it all works so we can benefit from all your hard work? jon (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for you knowledgeable Train-heads
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(...) The Penn Central car is a transfer caboose. Here is a Wikipedia page with a description about half way down. (URL) I'm not sure about the other. It's most likely some type of Maintenance of way equipment. What type I don't know. (URL) Cale (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Simple and to the point...
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Merry Christmas to everyone and may we all have a happy and prosperous new year! Joe Editor/Publisher, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question for you knowledgeable Train-heads
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(...) As it appears to have a compressor on board, my guess would be either a spike remover or a spot tamper, but can't be sure. I'll ask around. Merry Christmas! ROSCO (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for you knowledgeable Train-heads
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--- Jeffrey Jarvis <jwjarvis@mstar.net> wrote: However on the (...) Spike driver/puller? (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question for you knowledgeable Train-heads
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The teal one would probaly be a type of caboose. Mind you there are a bunch of different designs out there, some of which were for special purposes. This was probaly a work train related one. However on the other hand,the peice of equipment, I have (...) (19 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Blue Crater Crawler
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Don't know which one I like better--the original gray and black 6826, or the blue and gray one that I pieced together this morning. Had a fun time making this model. The red space figure fits in well with the vehicle's color scheme. These little (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Armoured Personell Carrier from Wings of the Honneamise
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Ah, nothing says Christmas like an armoured personell carrier. Highlighted. :) Nice design. -Brendan (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Question for you knowledgeable Train-heads
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Recently while on a walk with my son, I took some pictures of a few train cars that have been sort of on display in my town for at least all of the 3 1/2 years we've lived here. They're clean and looked-after, to judge by the lack of grafitti, (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: What's the difference?
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(...) Yes, and keep in mind that the advantage with an 18speed transmission that I described in my last post,is that you could go through your low gears without splitting them, flick into high range and split whichever gears you want...gives you (...) (19 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Armoured Personell Carrier from Wings of the Honneamise
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(2 URLs) Flickr> (URL) BS> Hope you enjoy it. Tim (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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(...) No. Godtfred used the name Lego in branding his wooden toys (typically by an ink stamp on the bottom). The first incorporation of the company was in 1944. From my website: In April 1944 Lego switched from a sole-trading firm to a private (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | The Classic of Classic Space :o)
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This is quintessential Classic Space. Before LL918, before those tasty macaroni craters: The "Rocket Horse" ! (URL) I've a fleet in mind... Or, should that be cavalry? -best, Wolf (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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(...) was actually looking for an answer to a timeline-related question: What dates did TLG start calling itself TLC and then back again? -Hendo (URL) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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1970 was a very tumultuous year at TLG. A lot of bad things were in progress at the same time.... 1) the USA Samsonite license fiasco. 2) the death of Hanne Christiansen. 3) a new law passed by the Italian parliament. In October of 1969 on their way (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New TLC standard for containers?
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(...) Here's to hoping they'll soon do a trans-white version! (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Buon Natale!
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Buon Natale a tutto il forum! :) (URL) prossima! (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Custom Buffy/Angel minifigs - revisited
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Hi, Been a while since I was here. Still quiet as ever, in fact more so now. Oh well. Hi to anyone still here! I recently came out of another mini-dark age while other custom toy-making hobbies had my interest, this one lasting two years. I decided (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.parts)
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| | Re: Creating Models and Optimizing instructions using LDD and LDraw
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(...) [...] (...) [...] (...) Adding to Paul's comment about sub assemblies... when building using LDD, I have noticed that it is difficult to build SNOT assemblies, especially when some of the bricks aren't directly attached to the SNOT brick. I (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.trains)
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